Macbook 13" Early 2011 Slow at startup

As the machine is booting, when the Apple logo is present and the spinning circle (not the beach ball of death) but before the logon screen this process takes about 20-30 seconds. Once the machine is running the computer runs OK but could use some RAM. I've check the smart status in disk utility and all is well. Running a scan with Clam now. Is there any way to speed the boot up process? Thanks in advance.

With Lingon you can see all the system level and user level startup plists and again disable any irrelevant ones.

It might also be worth creating a NEW user account .. and setting that as the default login and shutdown and restart and see if startup speed is significantly faster .. if it is that would indicate other problems with the other user account.

With Lingon I see a few things. Looks like "cleanmymac" made it onto the computer at some point. Removed those. The other entries look legitimate. Adobe, Google, Apple, etc.

Creating another user didn't change the boot up speed.

Lots of entries for Repair Permissions. Rebooted the machine afterwards no real change. However after removing some things using Lingon the desktop loads a little faster. Sitting idle the machine is using 2.5GB of system memory.

You'll always get a few issues on Repair Permissions .. it is a good thing to run but rarely has an impact on boot speed .. more likely to fix access to certain files and folders when applications are crashing.

You can open the Activity Monitor application and see what apps and processes are using up the RAM?

Also open Console and see are there any errors on startup .. look in the system.log and kernel.log

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